Circle packing and Riemann surfaces

DOI10.1007/BF03041071MaRDI QIDQ1803639zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Minda, Burton Rodin

Publication date 29 June 1993

Published in Journal d'Analyse Mathématique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03041071

zbMATH Keywords

circle packingcompact bordered surfacescone-like singularityhyperbolic radius functionSchwarz-Picard problemtriangulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45) Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Review text

A theorem of W. Thurston says that any given triangulation of a closed surface of genus \(g\) can be represented as the nerve of a certain circle packing, and that this circle packing determines a Riemann surface structure on \(S\) which is hyperbolic for \(g\geq 2\). The present paper generalizes this result to the case of compact bordered surfaces of genus \(g\geq 2\). The case \(g\leq 1\) was treated earlier. Furthermore the relationship is studied between polyhedral surfaces and hyperbolic metrics with isolated singularities and the index of such a singularity. For the existence problem with prescribed restriction at the border and prescribed indices at some interior points see a recent paper by \textit{B. Garrett} in Discrete Comp. Geom. (title: Circle packings and polyhedral surfaces).

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